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Why A Typing Test Should Be A Requirement for Many Job Candidates
It’s simple! Most jobs today require typing skills, although the modern day description might be keyboarding skills. It may not seem like a big deal to employers, but the “hunt and peck” method of typing or some other variation used by many employees might be impeding...
5 (plus 1) Hiring Mistakes Small Business Owners Make
Over the years, I've come to see and hear lots of reasons why employees don't work out. But all the fault for poor productivity and performance doesn't fall entirely onto the worker. Here's a list of the 6 most common hiring mistakes small business owners make (as...
120 Million Workers Need Retraining in 3 Years | Is Your Job in Jeopardy
This should be enough to scare the SHIFT out of you!The imperative for this change is imminent. What once was declared a “war for talent” has become a “race for talent.” Disruption is now taking place much faster than most of us want to admit. As Canadian Prime...
VUCA: Are Your Leadership Skills Growing Obsolete?
Institutions and nation states are now facing inevitable and even predictable, change. But they lack the leadership, flexibility and imagination to adapt. It’s not that their current leaders and pipeline are not smart enough or don’t recognize what’s happening. It’s...
Employee Turnover – It’s Like Throwing Money Down The Drain!
The cost of employee turnover is significant and cannot be ignored. Management goes ballistic when inventory is lost or materials are wasted. But when it comes to employees, bad hires and poor performance are tolerated and even excused as if the voluntary or...
An Expert’s 3 Tips for Selecting the Right Leadership Test
Behavioral interviews and leadership assessments are effective ways to expose potential blind spots, or as I tell clients – everyone has an Achilles Heel. Leadership assessment tests help identify the Achilles Heel before you hire or promote? Here are three tips to...
Companies Investing Leadership Training in Wrong Skills
Currently it appears companies are dumping more training and development dollars in the current strength areas of many leaders. Their strengths may become stronger but those competencies are becoming less important than other required skills. More significantly,...
62 Percent of Frontline Leaders Unprepared – Can Leadership Tests Help?
How can organizations get a good picture of the individuals capable of leading others? Most decisions about frontline leadership promotion (more than 80 percent) are based on manager recommendations. According to DDI’s Global Leadership Forecast 2011, only one in...
3 Reasons Why Management Competency Models Fail
Big corporations have been talking seriously about management competencies for at least the past two decades. Today even the smallest of small businesses have joined the discussion. Many organizations are dedicating time and resources into creating a leadership and...
What Does It Take To Hire Effective Leaders?
What does it take to hire effective leaders - or any new employee for that matter? Managers tend to be a bit myopic when filling front line manager positions. Senior management and HR seem to agree. In the DDI Finding the First Rung study, only 31 percent of HR...
